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thariq-nugrohotomo opened this issue Apr 13, 2023 · 1 comment · Fixed by #6968
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Docs: wrong information for rule in no-unnecessary-boolean-literal-compare #6897

thariq-nugrohotomo opened this issue Apr 13, 2023 · 1 comment · Fixed by #6968
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I'm reading through the documentation in https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/no-unnecessary-boolean-literal-compare/#fixer and seeing the following part:

Comparison Fixer Output
nullableBooleanVar === false nullableBooleanVar ?? true
nullableBooleanVar !== false !(nullableBooleanVar ?? true)

I believe both of them are wrong, i.e. the statement in comparison and fixer output are not equal.

To show how those are wrong, we can simply compare final evaluation result for each possible value of nullableBooleanVar = true, false, and undefined. (null will be treated as same as undefined).

Variable nullableBooleanVar Comparison nullableBooleanVar === false Fixer Output nullableBooleanVar ?? true
true false true
false true false
undefined false true

As shown above, we can see that the reported Fixer Output on the right-side will use expression that evaluate to different value from the original code on the middle.

Variable nullableBooleanVar Comparison nullableBooleanVar !== false Fixer Output !(nullableBooleanVar ?? true)
true true false
false false true
undefined true false

Again, as shown above, we can see that the reported Fixer Output on the right-side will use expression that evaluate to different value from the original code on the middle.

I can't advise about what the correct (expected) Fixer Output should be. The reason why I read this documentation in the first place is because I'm not sure how to fix my code. Yet the documentation gives incorrect information.

Also, I'm not sure whether this issue is also happen to your Fixer utility, since I'm not using it. I always fix lint error by hand ;-) or IDE.

Thanks.

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https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/no-unnecessary-boolean-literal-compare/#fixer
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Heh, yes, nice spot! I think it's a docs issue that's been there for a while, unnoticed. The Comparison column is missing an !( ... ) negation around the cases. See the tests for the rule:

typescript-eslint/packages/eslint-plugin/tests/rules/no-unnecessary-boolean-literal-compare.test.ts

Lines 187 to 206 in 81c8519

{
code: `
declare const varBooleanOrNull: boolean | null;
declare const otherBoolean: boolean;
if (!(varBooleanOrNull === false) || otherBoolean) {
}
`,
options: [{ allowComparingNullableBooleansToFalse: false }],
errors: [
{
messageId: 'comparingNullableToFalse',
},
],
output: `
declare const varBooleanOrNull: boolean | null;
declare const otherBoolean: boolean;
if ((varBooleanOrNull ?? true) || otherBoolean) {
}
`,
},

If we add ! to the Comparison ("before") cases, they're equivalent to the fixer output:

[LOG]: "true results in same: true" 
[LOG]: "false results in same: false" 
[LOG]: "undefined results in same: true"

Accepting a PR to fix the docs.

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